ἑλκέων (helkeon)

ἑλκέων is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκος, meaning “wound”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ἑλκέω, “drag, tear”.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Sophocles, Philoctetes 696: ὃς τὰν θερμοτάταν αἱμάδα κηκιομέναν ἑλκέων

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.11·2: … ὀλίγῳ πλεῖον, μᾶλλον κάκοδμα, ἀλλʼ ἔμπης εὐήθεα καὶ τάδε. ἢν δὲ ἐπὶ μᾶλλον βαθέα γίγνηται, καὶ τὰ χείλεα τῶν ἕλκεων ἀπηνέα ἢ τρηχέα, ἰχώρ τις κακώδης, καὶ πόνος τῶν πρόσθεν μέζων, ἀνεσθίει δὲ τὴν ὑστέρην τὸ ἕλκος· ἐξήκει δέ κ …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.7: … ν μελέτην τοῦ στομάχου ποιέεσθαι· ὅδε γὰρ ἡ πάντων φαρμάκων ὁδός· μεμνῆσθαι δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἥπατος χρεὼν, ἔνθα τῶν ἐλκέων ἐστὶ ἡ Ῥίζα.

All forms of ἕλκος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.